How Green Is Food Waste?

Green, green, the color green—previously emblematic of the color of money, spring, and Erin, today is the hue of the flag of sustainability.

Without wishing to upset the popular tenets and conceptions of the current trends in sustainability in energy, food, planetary resources, and our favorite—packaging, we present here some recent data of interest that should disturb current headline "wisdom." These figures are not selectively parsed to serve an agenda. The goal is to offer facts on food and pa…